TABLE OF CONTENTS // INTRODUCTION 9 // Oldrich Chytil and Jan Keller // SOCIAL STRUCTURE, SOCIAL POLICY, AND SOCIAL WORK IN THE EUROPEAN UNION 13 // Jan Keller // CHANGES IN SOCIETY AND THEIR REFLECTION IN THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SOCIAL WORK IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC 31 // Oldrich Chytil and Ivana Kowaliková // EUROPEAN DIMENSION IN SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AND PRACTICE: SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL POLICY IN ENGLAND 55 // Brian Littlechild // THE CRISIS OF THE WELFARE STATE AND SOCIAL WORK IN FRANCE 81 // Emmanuel Jovelin // ETHICAL CHALLENGES ON EDUCATION AND PRACTICE ON SOCIAL WORK, FACING UP CHANGES ON SOCIETY AND SOCIAL POLICY 105 // Berta Granja // CURRENT ISSUES OF SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL WORK // IN GERMANY 117 // Peter Erath and Jutta Harrer // THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION AND ITS IMPACT ON SOCIAL WORK IN THE NETHERLANDS // Hans van Ewijk // 129 // TRENDS AND FACTS IN SOCIAL SECTOR AND SOCIAL WORK IN ROMANIA 143 // Béla Szabó // FROM SOCIAL CONTRACT TO THE MARKET OF SOCIAL SERVICES: ROUTES AND RESOURCES FOR SOCIAL WORK PROFESSIONALIZATION 159 // Elena larskaia-Smirnova, Irina Grigorieva and Valentina Yarskaya // POLISH SOCIAL PEDAGOGY IN SOCIO-POLITICAL CONTEXT -A CRITICAL REVIEW 171 // MariuszGranoszik // SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION FOR A SOCIAL EUROPE - // CHALLENGES IN THE FACE OF INDIVIDUALISM, NATIONALISM // AND COMMERCIALISM 187 // Walter Lorenz // ABOUT THE AUTHORS // 203